Cohabiting couples are fastest growing family type
· Children thrive if parents are married, data suggests

Polly Curtis, education editor
Friday October 5, 2007
The Guardian

Children whose parents live together but are not married get worse results at school, leave education earlier and have a higher risk of developing a serious illness, according to an analysis of six years of government data on family life.

The figures show that a third of today's teenagers are destined to cohabit rather than marry, compared with one in 10 of their grandparents. The number of cohabiting couples has increased by 65% in a decade, with a more gradual rise in the number of single-parent families. By 2014, married couples could account for less than half of British families.

Proverbs 22:6
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he WILL NOT depart from it

Genesis 2:24
Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.

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